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GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I81 I915 Patented A R. E. LOWE.-

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APPLICATION men MAY IB.19I5.

I Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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Application filed may 13, 1915. Serial No. 28,898.

To all whom it may concert-w Be it known that I, Ronnntr E. Lows, a citizen of the United States, residin at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and tate of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is a one piece garment for women which may be used as a house dress, but which is equally well adapted to be worn on the street when made of the proper materials.

In securing a perfect fit in a womans garment, particular attention must be paid to the lines on which the material is cut for the seams over the hips. In ready to wear garments, manufacturers have experienced difficulty in providing a neat fitting garment for a number of persons of a standard size, but who have various waist and hip measurements. In providing garments to fit the average women, which may properly fit but a very few, the manufacturer has been re-' quired to make special garments for stout and slender women. The variation in sizes of different women is usually in the different form which lines take over the hips.

The improvements pertain to a one piece dress wherein the only loose portion thereof is over the hips, the garment being provided with a concealed adjusting belt which, when.

once adjusted, transforms the garment into a permanently fitted dress which is so neat and regular in appearance that it can be worn in the street without embarrassment, as distinguished from the ordinary neglige, apron or working garment.

While a preferred embodiment of the in vention is disclosed in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the construction therein shown is for the purposes of illustration only and not as defining the limits of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the garment.

Fig. 2 is a rear view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken above the waist line. V

Fig. 4; is a sectional view substantially at the waist line.

Fig. 5 is a view disclosing the interior of the garment.

Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the belt.

Fig. 7 the belt. The invention is a one piece garment as olstinguished from a substitute for a dress, such as a lap-over, apron or kimono, or a two piece dress consisting of aseparate waist and skirt, or an adjustable dress with the extended front gores and lap-over front.

The fitted front and back of a garment is secured by confining the adjustment thereof to the portions of the waist-band over the hips where the loose portions of the garment occur. The adjustment is accomplished by running a belt, which is secured at therear of the garment and unattached over the hips, through openings in the garment and attaching the front ends of the belt to a sewed front belt member. In this manner all the gathers come over the hips, with the advantage of allowing more freedom of movement under the arms.

The facilities for exact adjustment of the belt or waist-band over the hips is of advantage in ready made garments where it is to be fitted to long or short waisted people or persons with wide or varying hips, the

free portions of the belt naturally adjusting themselves to the form of the wearer when drawn together. The loose belt sections, besides facilitating exaet adjustment of the belt or waist-band, divides the garment into waist and skirt portions over the hips according to the natural figure of the wearer.

In this invention the loose adjusting ends of the belt are concealed and the device is more simple, more durable and attractive in appearance than draw strings to accomplish a similar purpose, besides being less expensive to manufacture.

In the embodiment of the invention set forth in the accompanying drawings, the one piece garment is shown provided ,With a belt which is secured by stitching the same directly to the exterior of the garment as at 1. This insures the back of the garment to remain fiat when it is adjusted to the wearer. The entire back of the garment may be of a single piece, or may be of a plurality of sections which are united by a false belt 2 positioned under the main belt 1, and this false beltmay be continued over the hips to the front portion of the garment. The main belt 1 is unattached from the point 3 at the rear of the garment, and becomes loose end sections 4:, 5. Each of these sections may is a detail sectional view through usual manner and '7, thereby providing an be provided with suitable means, such as buttons 6, to fasten the free ends 4, 5 of the belt, as will be hereinafter set forth. The waist portion of the garment is shown open in the front, and may be provided with any suitable means, such as buttons and the like, to retain the parts together. The skirt portion may have its opening in the front, but as shown in the drawings, is provided with an opening at the side, as indicated at overlapping section 8. The waist portion may have a plait 9 on each side of the central opening and this plait may be secured at the lower end of the waist line 11, leaving an opening indicated at 12 in alinement with the belt, through which an end 4 or 5 of the belt section may be passed. This plait section of the waist permits of expansion of the garment to fit various bust measurements, while still retaining a flat smooth appearance to the front of the garment. The waist plait 9 on the side of the garment adjacent the opening 7 of the skirt, may be provided with a buttonhole 13 to register with a similar buttonhole 14 of the skirt flap 7, whereby one of the buttons 6, serving as a fastening means on the loose ends of the belt 4 or 5, may be passed through the buttonholes 1.3 and 14: to thereby retain the garment in its closed position.

In adjusting the pass the free ends, through the slots waist, drawing in belt until the waist of the garment snugly fits the figure of the wearer. Thereafter, one of the fastening means, such as a button 6, may be passed through the buttonhole 13 to retain the belt in its adjusted size, and the opposite end of the belt may be similarly attached to the buttonhole on the permanent front section of the belt, permitting the free ends of the belt to be folded within the garment and concealed by the permanent outer section 15. The garment may now be united down the front openings 10 and 7 in the the overlapping section 8 may be secured by means of its buttonhole 14 to the adjusted button 6 of the belt section 4. The garment having been adjusted tothe wearer, it is unnecessary thereafter to further adjust the 'belt sections 4 and 5, as the skirt overlapping section 8 is merely attached to the button 6 in applying or removing the garment, the button 6 not being moved from engagement with buttonhole 13 except to readjust the waist line.

By this invention the garment produces a conventional appearance in the dress. The adjustment by running the belt through on the sides is a means for expanding or congarment, the wearer will l or 5 of the belt sections, 12 at the plaits 9 of the 'tracting the waist of the garment without detracting from the permanent belt idea of 10 thereof,

on the free ends of thethe dress The plait on the waist portion serves the double purpose of permitting bust enlargement and also hiding the vertical slit for the reception of the belt ends. It is obvious also that the provision of the extended belt sections permits of great latitude in the abdominal adjustment of the garment.

By reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, it will be observed that the garment is provided with side members a cut to obtainadditional fullness over the hips or side portions of the garment. On the front and back portions at the waist line, where the belt is permanently attached to the garment, the material is cut on normal or ordinary lines. On the sides, however, where the belt is unattached, an extra fullness or width of the material is allowed to provide for an extra large or abnormally developed waist-line. After the belt shall have been adjusted to fit the wearer, any surplus fullness will be gathered under the free portion of the belt. This construction permits of the garment be ing worn by a person having very large hips and also affords plenty of freedom of the material under the arms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: u 1. A garment having permanent belt sections secured at the front and rear of a garment, other belt sections attached to a permanent belt section and unattached over the hips, and means to engage the unattached ends of the belt.

2. A garment having permanent belt sections at the front and rear of the garment, adjustable belt sections unattached to the garment over the hips thereof, and means to engageand conceal the free ends of the adjustable belt sections, whereby the waistband of the garment at the front and rear thereof may be retained in a substantially smooth condition.

3. A one piece garment provided with a belt to divide the garment into a waist portion and a skirt portion, said waist portion being provided with slitted plaits, the belt being constructed in sections, some of which are permanently connected to the garment and others unattached thereto over the hips, the unattached end portions of said belt being passed through the slits of said plaits to conceal the same.

4. A one piece garment provided with a belt which divides the garment into a waist portion and a skirt portion, the waist portion being open at the front and slitted plaits on each side of the opening, a belt portion permanently secured to the garment at the front thereof and terminating substantially at said plaits, another belt portion secured to the rear of the garment and having unattached ends which extend over the hips and are adapted to be passed through the slits of the plaits, and fastening means to engage said unattached ends.

5. A one piece garment provided with a belt which divides the garment into a waist portion and a skirt portion, the waist portion being open at the front and having plaits adjacent the opening, the skirt being opened at the side substantially in alinement with a waist plait, and a belt secured to the garment at the back and unattached thereto over the hips, the unattached ends of said belt being provided with means to engage the garment at the waist line near said plaits.

6. A one piece garment provided with a belt which divides the garment into a Waist portion and a skirt portion, the waist portion being open at the front and having plaits adjacent the opening, the skirt being provided with an overlapping section terminating at the belt line and at the side opening of the skirt, a belt having a part thereof permanently secured to the waist portion and to the overlapping section of the skirt portion, another part of the belt being permanently secured at the back and having unconfined ends extending over the hips, and means to engage the belt ends to secure the same to the permanent front part of the belt With the ends concealed within the garment, said securing means serving also to engage and retain the overlapping section of the skirt at the waist line.

7. A one piece garment having side members, the material of which is cut to provide a fullness at the waist line over the hips, front and rear members for said garment each having a belt section permanently secured thereto, the belt section of the rear member having unattached ends adapted to extend to, and be secured at, the front member to allow for contraction and expansion of the garment at the side members, substantially at the waist portion thereof over the hips.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. 7 ROBERT E. LOWE. V Witnesses:

W. S. MORRILL, AMY S. BAKER. 

